“What does the Bible mean to Christians?”

2 Tim 3:16-17

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.

A major problem that we have in the church right now is people wanting to disregard scripture. This is very upsetting to me. I hear many people say that it is just Jesus that they want and need. Now when I hear them say this, i can’t help but agree with the words, but unfortunately the words do not accurately portray what is being said here. Somewhere along the way, people started believing that simply saying some words and being dunked in water was enough to lock in a place in heaven. Some even went as far as doing good deeds and even doing ministry. Now on the other hand, we had groups of Christians who thought they could better Gods word by adding rules and regulations to live by. All of this is wrong.

What happened here?  We became lazy in our faith. We accepted exactly what others told us and/or made excuses not to listen to God because it was accepted by our peers, and even our church. Come on people. We are not talking about some minor insignificant part of our lives. When we become Christians it is suppose to take over our lives. It is suppose to be our lives. I understand that ignorance can have much to do with this, but what makes us ignore and even attack truth......selfishness. We are so caught up on what our faith will take away from us and make us do that we shut it down. We look at the Bible, and only see work and suffering and change and and maybe most of all the end of “our” life, ignoring the beginning of His life in us and His promises and His love. I’ll say it again, Come on people.

All of my previous rant was to bring us to the question “what does the Bible means to Christians?”  2 Tim uses the word “all” when describing “what scripture” was inspired by God. The greek word used was “ta panta”, which literally means all. So when this was written, the writer was very much trying to say that “All Scripture is inspired by God”. When are we as Christians going to start living by the Bible. Jesus is not going to accept the excuse of ignorance. If we are going to claim the name of Christ, than we better know what He’s about. We better believe the words He lived by and professed to be true. 

Following Jesus is not a simple claim to be made. Being a Christian is not putting in your time. If you have not accepted Jesus’ sacrifice that he made for you, asked Him to forgive you of your sin, been baptized(made a public affirmation of your faith), and have been filled with the Holy Spirit - then get on your knees. 

We are going to be talking about a lot of the topics i have mentioned so i don’t want to go too deep into them yet, but i do want to stress the importance of scripture. This blog is founded on and will continue on the belief that the Bible is the word of God.